This has been a long time coming to the site but finally after some
cleaning up of the images, Marine Boy has made it to the screen.

Marine Boy was originally produced some time in the mid to late sixties
in Japan. The episode information at the end suggests 1967 was the initial
release date but it may have been earlier than that as I do not know the order
of episode release. According to the Radio Times (thanks to John Archbold) BBC1
showed Marine Boy on the 5th February 1969. There were several seasons of
Marine Boy totalling at least 78 episodes. They were all dubbed into English
and each episode lasted about 25 mins and was shot in colour.

Marine Boy worked for the Ocean Patrol Marine Headquarters. His father
was called Dr. Mariner although we never got to hear him call Marine Boy by his
real name (assuming of course he had one). His father often referred to him as
son or Marine Boy and was especially concerned when Marine Boy was out of
contact for any length of time. Marine boy always wore an orange water suit
made out of a special material to give him protection from bullets and blasts.
His main weapon was a powerful yellow boomerang that he kept in a pouch on his
arm. This boomerang was often the device that saved the day. Marine Boy swims
or literally shot through the water faster than almost anything else, by virtue
of his water jet powered propeller boots. These just like the boomerang were
developed by the genius, Professor Fimble. Marine boy was able to remain
underwater for great periods of time by another Professor Fimble's inventions -
oxygen producing chewing gum called oxygum. Occasionally Marine Boy
was seen slipping a small strip into his mouth before leaving the Ocean Patrol
Boat and entering the water.

Splasher was the name of a small white dolphin which was Marine Boy's
best friend. Splasher often came to the aid of Marine Boy. Neptina was a
mermaid and she too helped Marine Boy in his fight against the bad guys.
Neptina had a large magic pearl around her neck that had special powers. It
allowed her to locate Marine boy when he was lost or has been captured by the
bad guys. Cli Cli was the name of a small boy who often tried to help Marine
Boy but usually ended up getting everyone into a mess (including himself). Cli
Cli secretly wanted to be a smaller version of Marine Boy - bit like Batman and
Robin.

Marine boy was always accompanied by two other friends called Bolton and
Piper. They too were employed by the Ocean Patrol Marine Group. Bolton was a
large aggressive angry looking bloke, whilst Piper was an easily frightened but
easy going sort of guy.

There was always some problem with the ocean and it was always down to
some bad guy wanting to make vast amounts of money or wanting to take over the
world. Of course Marine Boy and his friends would always defeat them and save
the day. The show tried to be environmentally friendly but always tried to ally
technological progress with marine life. It never seemed to quite work for the
bad guys though. This show was light years ahead of Seaquest DSV which took on
board similar ideas from the show.

Anyone with any memories, thoughts, suggestions etc. or if you were
involved in the making of Marine Boy (technical or actor), then I would love to
hear from you using the address in the top menu bar.